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In a Healthy Family, Everyone Should Participate

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Yes, many family psychology experts have accepted that everyone should do “their own thing” during their free time. This usually means that the children are involved in many activities such as dance, sports teams, drama, bowling, weightlifting or modeling. Meanwhile, the parents have their own activities, clubs and regular activities to satisfy their own interests.

Many families have outside helpers to complete almost all the necessary maintenance projects that keep up their homestead. Someone or a company maintains the outside and others do the inside of the home.
There are organized activities to go to every day and night for each family member to be entertained in their so-called “free time.” Everyone has their own scheduled events to keep them interested, active and fill their time. Yet, there are things that must be done to keep up the homestead.

Instead of using the many businesses to complete household tasks, parents could pass on their knowledge and skills to their children rather than use these specialists to perform various functions around the home. Yes, it is easier to bring in professionals, but it is a lost valuable opportunity to pass on the skills of the parents to their own children. Training one’s children to be self-sufficient has always been a goal of a thoughtful parent. Emphasizing the future skills that might be necessary and important in a child’s life is wise and prudent time spent.

Spending time learning a host of tasks such as cooking, cleaning, yard work, painting, or repairing things is necessary and invaluable. Regardless of their family’s financial status, the children should learn skills and methods to complete tasks and projects should their family’s financial status change.

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By fathers and mothers passing their knowledge and skills onto their children, it allows the next generation to be more prepared for future economic changes. Besides, these valuable and necessary skills will give them a heads-up in successfully completing many projects and activities in the future.

By explaining, demonstrating, and having children participate with them in as many home activities as possible, parents allow the children to have their questions answered so that they can better function when they reach adulthood. The greater the participation of the children of the family, the better prepared they are to become high-functioning adults. Having children help can slow down the completion of the tasks at first, but it prepares the children to be competent to take care of the constant number of tasks that arise around the home.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers and blogs, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN and the latest book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.

Dr. Domenick Maglio
Dr. Domenick Magliohttp://www.drmaglioblogspot.com
Dr. Domenick Maglio holds a Ph.D. in Human Development with more than forty years of experience in the field of education and mental health. During his career, he has worked as a clinical psychologist in the Florida prison system. He served as the director of Hernando County Domestic Violence program for ten years. He also served as the director of Open Door for Mental Health, a program helping mentally ill patients transition from state mental hospitals to the community. He taught for a decade in higher education and served as a board member with the National Independent Private Schools Association.
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